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Shape learning, or the ability to leverage shape information, could be a desirable property of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) when target objects have specific shapes. While some research on the topic is emerging, there is no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yixin Zhang , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Group Equivariant Convolution (GConv) can capture rotational equivariance from original data. It assumes uniform and strict rotational equivariance across all features as the transformations under the specific group. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Zhiqiang Wu , Yingjie Liu , Licheng Sun , Jian Yang , Hanlin Dong , Shing-Ho J. Lin , Xuan Tang , Jinpeng Mi , Bo Jin , Xian Wei

Metric learning has received conflicting assessments concerning its suitability for solving instance segmentation tasks. It has been dismissed as theoretically flawed due to the shift equivariance of the employed CNNs and their respective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Josef Lorenz Rumberger , Xiaoyan Yu , Peter Hirsch , Melanie Dohmen , Vanessa Emanuela Guarino , Ashkan Mokarian , Lisa Mais , Jan Funke , Dagmar Kainmueller

Symmetries (transformations by group actions) are present in many datasets, and leveraging them holds considerable promise for improving predictions in machine learning. In this work, we aim to understand when and how deep networks -- with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Andrea Perin , Stephane Deny

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have emerged as the state-of-the-art method for graph-based learning tasks. However, training GCNs at scale is still challenging, hindering both the exploration of more sophisticated GCN architectures and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Cheng Wan , Youjie Li , Ang Li , Nam Sung Kim , Yingyan Lin

We develop a theory of category-equivariant neural networks (CENNs) that unifies group/groupoid-equivariant networks, poset/lattice-equivariant networks, graph and sheaf neural networks. Equivariance is formulated as naturality in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Yoshihiro Maruyama

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are widely used for image recognition and text analysis, and have been suggested for application on one-dimensional data as a way to reduce the need for pre-processing steps. Pre-processing is an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Ine L. Jernelv , Dag Roar Hjelme , Yuji Matsuura , Astrid Aksnes

The introduction of convolutional layers greatly advanced the performance of neural networks on image tasks due to innately capturing a way of encoding and learning translation-invariant operations, matching one of the underlying symmetries…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Nicholas Guttenberg , Nathaniel Virgo , Olaf Witkowski , Hidetoshi Aoki , Ryota Kanai

Convolutional neural networks often dominate fully-connected counterparts in generalization performance, especially on image classification tasks. This is often explained in terms of 'better inductive bias'. However, this has not been made…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Zhiyuan Li , Yi Zhang , Sanjeev Arora

Graph convolutional neural networks (GCNs) generalize tradition convolutional neural networks (CNNs) from low-dimensional regular graphs (e.g., image) to high dimensional irregular graphs (e.g., text documents on word embeddings). Due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Mehrnaz Najafi , Philip S. Yu

The big empirical success of group equivariant networks has led in recent years to the sprouting of a great variety of equivariant network architectures. A particular focus has thereby been on rotation and reflection equivariant CNNs for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Maurice Weiler , Gabriele Cesa

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have shown significant improvements in semi-supervised learning on graph-structured data. Concurrently, unsupervised learning of graph embeddings has benefited from the information contained in random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Sami Abu-El-Haija , Amol Kapoor , Bryan Perozzi , Joonseok Lee

Despite impressive performance on numerous visual tasks, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) --- unlike brains --- are often highly sensitive to small perturbations of their input, e.g. adversarial noise leading to erroneous decisions. We…

We attempt to interpret how adversarially trained convolutional neural networks (AT-CNNs) recognize objects. We design systematic approaches to interpret AT-CNNs in both qualitative and quantitative ways and compare them with normally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Tianyuan Zhang , Zhanxing Zhu

Employing equivariance in neural networks leads to greater parameter efficiency and improved generalization performance through the encoding of domain knowledge in the architecture; however, the majority of existing approaches require an a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Emmanouil Theodosis , Karim Helwani , Demba Ba

Geometric quantum machine learning uses the symmetries inherent in data to design tailored machine learning tasks with reduced search space dimension. The field has been well-studied recently in an effort to avoid barren plateau issues…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Zachary P. Bradshaw , Ethan N. Evans , Matthew Cook , Margarite L. LaBorde

Deep learning has gained great success in various classification tasks. Typically, deep learning models learn underlying features directly from data, and no underlying relationship between classes are included. Similarity between classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Xueli Xiao , Chunyan Ji , Thosini Bamunu Mudiyanselage , Yi Pan

In this paper we review the mathematical foundations of convolutional neural nets (CNNs) with the goals of: i) highlighting connections with techniques from statistics, signal processing, linear algebra, differential equations, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Shengli Jiang , Victor M. Zavala

Visual representation based on covariance matrix has demonstrates its efficacy for image classification by characterising the pairwise correlation of different channels in convolutional feature maps. However, pairwise correlation will…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Saimunur Rahman , Piotr Koniusz , Lei Wang , Luping Zhou , Peyman Moghadam , Changming Sun

Games such as go, chess and checkers have multiple equivalent game states, i.e. multiple board positions where symmetrical and opposite moves should be made. These equivalences are not exploited by current state of the art neural agents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Oisín Carroll , Joeran Beel